Accountable Data Sharing in Cloud using Logging Mechanism

In Cloud Computing the scalable services are easily consumed in an on-demand basis via internet. In this the User’s data are processed remotely in an unknown machine, where there is a fear of losing their own data. In order to overcome this problem, a decentralized accountability framework is proposed to keep track of the actual usage of data. In this paper, we propose a logging mechanism, along with the user data and policies to keep track of the actual usage of the data. The data is uploaded using JAR. To ensure that any access to the users data will trigger authentication and automated logging we develop a distributed auditing mechanism, which strengthen the user’s control and also used for handling log files. Keywords --Cloud Computing ,accountability ,data sharing.